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L. W. KENNEY. ATTACHMENT FOR SKATES.

No 579,830. Patented Mar. 30, 1897.

Illlllllll I III LUKE W. KENNEY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

ATTACHMENT FOR SKATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,830, dated March 30, 1897.

Application filed January 28, 1896. Serial No. 577,184. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUKE W. KENNEY, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates especially to an attachment to skates or similar articles to be attached to footwear, whereby an ankle-support may be applied to the skate at the heel portion thereof; and the object of the invention is to so construct the attaching-plate for the support that the said plate may be applied to a club-skate without interfering with the action of any of its parts, and another object of the invention is to improve upon the 0011- struction of the heel-plate or plate attachments of skates shown and described in the patents granted to me June 21, 1892, No. 477,550, and June 12, 1894, No. 521,375.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the skate, illustrating the application thereto of the auxiliary heel-plate or attaching-plate and an ankle-support connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the heel portion of a skate having the auxiliary heel-plate applied. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the heel-section of the skate and of the auxiliary heel or attaching plate, the runner of the skate being in cross-section. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the lower member of the auxiliary heelplate shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the heel portion of a skate, illustrating the application thereto of an auxiliary heel-plate of a slightly-modified form. Fig. 5 is a plan View of that portion of the skate and the auxiliary heel-plate shown in Fig. 4. Fig. (3 is a plan view of a slightly-modified form of auxiliary heel or attaching plate applied to the form of skate shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 2.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 I have shown the ap ally known as the American club or lever skate. In this form of the skate the ordinary heel-plate A is provided with the usual upwardly-extending loop or flange 10, and rear' clamping-flanges 11 are attached to an adjusting-bar 11, having movement beneath the main heel-plate, being operated by the ordinary lever 11", as shown particularly in Fig. 3. The auxiliary heel-plate is made in two sections B and B. The upper section B (shown in Fig. 2) consists of a plate 12 of suitable size, which rests transversely upon the forward portion of the main heel-plate A of the skate, and the said upper member of the auxiliary heel-plate usually has a recess 13 made in the central portion of its rear edge in the interests of lightness, and the said plate is further provided with a transverse slot 14, through which. the front clampingflange 10 of the main heel-plate A upwardly extends. An inwardly-extending flange 15 is formed upon the front edge of the said plate 12, and this forward flange is provided at both of its ends with a recess 16 of suitable shape.

The lower member B of the auxiliary'heelplate is shown best in Figs. 3 and 3, and comprises a depressed body portion 17 and side wings 18, extending above the upper face of the depressed body portion 17, and these side wings are provided with openings 19, while the body at its rear is provided with a longitudinal slot 20, and at the front portion-of the member B of the auxiliary clampingplate a flange 2O is preferably made. The upper member 13 constitutes the heel-receiving section or heel-plate proper of the attachment, the lower member B being the clamping member, and in applying the attachment the clamping member B is carried beneath the forward portion of the main heel-plate A above theadjusting-lever 11 of the rear heel clamps or flanges 11, as shown in Fig. 3, the runner C, where it connects with the main heel-plate, being received within the slot 20 of the aforesaid clamping member of the attachment, and the depressed upper face 17 of the body portion of the clamping plate is given such shape as to practically conform with that portion of the main heel-plate of the skate it is adapted to receive.

The heel-receiving section of the auxiliary heel-plate is now placed upon the main heelplate A, the forward clamp or lip 10 of the latter entering the slot ll in the auxiliary plate, and screws 21 are employed to secure the clamping and heel-receiving sections of the attachment together, or other equivalent fastening devices may be employed, as, for example, one section maybe provided with a recess or an opening and the other section with a spur struck up therefrom to enter the said recess or opening.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have illustrated the attachment as made to what is known as the Canadian skate. The main heel-plate A of this form of skate rests upon a-bar A the said bar being attached to the runner G, and the bar A forward of the main heel-plate is provided with notches upon its upper face designated as 22, the notched surface of the bar A being adapted to ad j ustabl y receive a forward clamping-plate A and the adjust ment of the supporting-barA with reference to the main heel-plate is effected through the medium of a suitable lever A". The auxiliary plate, especially adaptable to this form of skate, consists of a bar 23, which extends across the runner a predetermined distance above its upper edge, and the bar is provided with a rear flange 21 and a front flange 25, the latter being provided with recesses 20' in its ends. A clamp comprising two jaws 27 is secured in any suitable or approved manner to the rear flange 2a of the attachment, and the said clamp is made to surround and is adapted for locking engagement with the upper and preferably toothed surface 22 of the supporting-bar A of the main heel-plate of the skate, and the clamp n7 is prevented from moving too far to the rear by means of a pin 28, which is projected downward from the lower portion of the cross-bar 23 of the attachment, as shown particularly in Fig. 4:.

A tongue 29 is preferably made integral with the cross-bar 23, and the said tongue is carried downward and forward, and its forward end is bifurcated in order that it may straddle the runner and thus preserve the attachment against lateral movement. Under the form of the device shown in Fig. 6 a tongue 30 is made integral with the upper or heel-carrying plate A, constructed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and this tongue is likewise carried downward and is made to straddle the runner and prevent the attachment when made a part of an American form of skate from having lateral movement.

The ankle-support comprises a yoke E, (shown in Fig. 1,) having clamping-pins or their equivalents E, adapted to enter the recesses 16 and 26 of the different forms of the attachment, and bowed arms E are pivoted to the upper portion of the yoke E, the said arms being provided with straps E to extend around the leg above the ankle. The anklesupport does not constitute a portion of this application, having been the subject-matter of the patent heretofore referred to and granted June 21, 1892.

It will be understood that the attachment may be made to roller-skates as well as to ice-skates or to any equivalent article of footwear.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A device adapted to connect an anklesupport to a skate or like article, consisting of a plate adapted as an auxiliary to the heelplate and arranged for adjustment therewith, the auxiliary plate having a flange portion arranged for locking engagement with the ankle-support, and a slot for receiving the runner of the skate to prevent lateral movement of the said auxiliary plate, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A device adapted to secure an anklesupport to a skate or like article, comprising an auxiliary heelplate formed in two sections, one of which is provided with a flange and formed with an opening to receive the front clamping-flange of the main heel-plate of said skate, and a clamping-section having a portion of its surface recessed to receive the bottom portion of the main heel-plate of the skate and other portions arranged for1oekin g en gagemeut with the other section of said auxiliary heel-plate, the said auxiliary l1eelplate being likewise provided with means for engaging the runner of the skate, as and for the purpose specified.

3. A device adapted to secure an ankle support to a skate or like article, the same consisting of a plate provided with a flange, and having a bifurcated tongue adapted to receive the runner of the skate, whereby lat eral movement of the said plate is prevented, the said plate being also provided with a stop, and a clamp secured to the said plate and arranged for attachment to the adjustable member of the heel portion of the plate, the movement of the said clamp being limited by the said stop, as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination with the main heelplate of a skate, of an auxiliary heel-plate formed in two sections, the upper section having locking engagement with the upper portion of the main heel-plate and provided with a forward flange having recesses therein, and a lower or clamping section having a depressed body portion and side wings extending above the upper face of the depressed body portion, the said depressed portion being adapted to receive the forward end portion of the main heel-plate, and fastening devices for securing said clamping-section to the upper section, as and for the purpose specified.

LUKE \V. KENNEY.

\Vitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, A. A. HOPKINS.

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